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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander Publisher: Minotaur Books Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre:  Domestic Suspense / Thriller / Psychological Mystery / Crime Read This If You Love: Ashley Winstead books “The articles said: Charlotte Colbert escaped unscathed. Which is true. While the others were in surgery or stretched out in a morgue, I was in the shower, scrubbing their blood from my neck and shoulders.” Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead  is a gripping and unpredictable thriller. An elite graduate school suffers a horrific tragedy, Charlie Colbert has been running from that day ever since. Nine years later, the past can no longer be bottled away. A film is being made about the Scarlet Christmas tragedy, and Charlie must face the black holes in her memories. What did she do or not do during the missing time?  Told via narratives in past and present, interviews, therapy sessions, and news articles, the book kept me captivated from start to finish and I gobbl

Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin Publisher: Atria Books Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Genre: Literature / LGBTQIA+ / Romance Read This If You Love: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine / Lessons in Chemistry / The Guncle “I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I want to be. I wish I were someone different.” Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin is a masterful piece of dark humor, wit, and emotion. Enid is finding her way in the world and it isn’t always easy when you see the world in a different way than those around you. Managing difficult family relationships, mental health journeys, and navigating accidental complicated romantic situations is full of pitfalls and Enid’s processing of it all will have you chuckling to yourself. Well, until something nefarious seems to be going on? Is someone after Enid or is she paranoid? Is it just her mind playing tricks on her because she is so obsessed with listening to true crime podcasts? Oh…and if you want to know i

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Genre:  Suspense / Thriller / Mystery Read This If You Love: The Other Black Girl “And so, she was caught by surprise when it all changed.” Theo decides to pursue her dream of being a writer and uproots her life to move to Lawrence, Kansas where her brother has relocated. When she decides to use the local bar, Benders, as her home base to write her novel, she befriends Dan Murdoch. Dan is a mysterious man who has his own successfully published mystery books who reveals he is reading conspiracy sites for inspiration. Soon, the stuff of fiction starts to happen to Theo and those around her. Why are dead bodies piling up? Why are there so many conspiracy theories running rampant? What is happening and who is responsible? It’s a twisty layered story that is fast paced and action packed from the first page to the last. I was thoroughly immersed into the world of The Mystery Writer and it t

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie Publisher:  Atria Books Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Non-Fiction Read This If You Love:  The Dream  podcast / Cultish by Amanda Montell "...as many as 99 percent of those who do join [MLMs] make no money or even lose money." Selling the Dream by Jane Marie is an exploration of the MLM (multi-level marketing) industry and dives even deeper than her hit podcast The Dream . If you have ever received a message from a former classmate who is looking to help you "build your dream life" or "become your own boss" and you just rolled your eyes until they stuck, then this is a book (and podcast) for you. How and why do these companies prey upon mostly women who are looking to make extra money to help their families? What tactics are applied to get smart people to sign up, pay a huge fee, and then get trapped in the cycle of needing to sign up more and more people each mont

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera Publisher: Caledon Book, a division of MacMillan Publishers Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Mystery / Thriller / Psychological Mystery Read This If You Love:  Megan Miranda / Fans of true crime podcasts “A podcaster has decided to ruin my life, so I’m buying a chicken.” Lucy’s best friend was murdered and everyone thinks she did it. But it could never be proven. Hell, even Lucy isn’t sure she DIDN’T do it. Enter podcaster Ben who sets out to solve the case many years later. It uproots the life Lucy had managed to carve out for herself (dark humor intended), and she is thrust back into the black hole of her life that she simply cannot remember. What Lucy does know is that she has a little voice in her head constantly saying, “Let’s kill…”  I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Having been in a mini reading slump, this was the right book at the right time for me. It’s a very fast read and I was hooked from the first page. Unlike other “podcast” based

Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Ginasbookreport Rating:  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Domestic Suspense Read This If You Love: Samantha Downing / Tarryn Fisher Cassie and Billie are the best of childhood friends, but sometimes even best friends grow apart. What they do and for each other is a complicated web of love, jealousy, and deceit. Not so much a mystery…more of a mystery mixed with drama. I constantly flipped my allegiance…. While Cassie lives an influencer life and is defined by the adoration of strangers, Billie has this amazing job where she gets insane trips. However, Billie doesn’t share and boast on her private accounts about this aspect of her life. A stark contrast that had me screaming at Billie to see that she had an amazing existence and didn’t need to cling to the old familiar. Have you ever had a friendship run its course and turn toxic? Did you find it hard to extricate from the situation? This book is the extreme, but oddly relatable.